Details on the details of the health care reform bill were derived from Nick Baumann, writing for Mother Jones Online.
If you listen to the Repugnicans - especially the batshit-crazy ones like Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin or John McCain - you'd think the world has come to an end with the passage of the health care reform bill.
Some of these broomsticks are keening loudly that this terrible deed is further proof that President Obama is a Marxist, a one-worlder, possessed by demons, not an American citizen, and is probably the anti-Christ!
Well, maybe they are right. I mean, just consider some of the things involved in this awful piece of legislation:
1. The wonderful insurance companies are not allowed to put lifetime coverage limits on your insurance. Whatever will they do if they can't deny you coverage when you get really sick and they can't cut off your insurance? No more lifetime caps!
2. The poor insurance companies are also limited in placing annual caps on your insurance, and by 2014 such caps will be outlawed totally.
3. No more pre-existing exclusions. Insurance companies are forbidden to deny your children insurance based on a pre-existing condition! That's just terrible. Many insurance companies may even have to cut back on their advertising!
4. Adults with pre-existing conditions can get insurance from a "special, temporary program." And in 2014, "when the health insurance exchanges--basically big 'pools' of businesses and individuals--come on line. At that point "all insurers will have to cover everyone, pre-existing condition or not." Damn. Some of them insurance folks may find their million-dollar bonuses cut by a dollar or two!
5. If you get sick, your insurance company cannot drop you like a hot potato, which has been the routine for many of them. No wonder the health insurance industry did everything they could to stop this legislation!
6. Young adults may remain on their parent's insurance until they are 26 years of age!
7. Old folks like me will get some bucks to help with the "donut hole" in the prescription drug coverage. And in nine months 50 percent of the "donut hole" will be covered. Eventually it will be closed completely.
8. Yippee! For those of us on Medicare, we'll get a free visit annually to our primary care physician. And, "no more co-pays for preventative services in Medicare."
9. Small business owners come out smelling like a rose. They can get up to 50 percent of premium costs as tax credits "for offering health insurance to their workers."
10. The last one bit the health insurance in the ass. If a company has "unusually high administrative costs" (hmmm...advertising, bonuses, other company perks?) they "have to offer rebates to their customers, and every insurance company has to reveal how much it spends on overhead."
Damn those Democrats and Obama! How could they pass this monstrous piece of legislation when all it does is help people and not corporations? Didn't the Supreme Court just rule that corporations are people, too?
Obviously, offering such health insurance goodies to the needy as well as the middle class is just another step down toward the hell of an atheistic, godless, communist society!
But never fear, Palin's PAC is dedicated to erasing those smiling Democratic faces from the Washington scene!
You can read Baumann's entire article here.
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